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International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications

MATA 2002: Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications pp 171–181Cite as

Anonymous Communications for Mobile Agents

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Anonymous communication techniques are vital for some types of ecommerce applications. There have been several different approaches developed for providing anonymous communication over the Internet. In this paper, we review key techniques for anonymous communication and describe an alternate anonymous networking approach based on agile agents intended to provide anonymous communication protection for mobile agent systems.

NRC Paper number: NRC-44948

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  1. Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada, K1A 0R6, Ontario, Ottawa, Canada

    Larry Korba, Ronggong Song & George Yee

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  1. Larry Korba
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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161, Louis Pasteur, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ahmed Karmouch

  2. Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  3. Departament de Tecnologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Pg. Circumvallació 8, 08003, Barcelona, Spain

    Jaime Delgado

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Korba, L., Song, R., Yee, G. (2002). Anonymous Communications for Mobile Agents. In: Karmouch, A., Magedanz, T., Delgado, J. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36086-7_16

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